{"id":3428,"date":"2016-08-22T19:33:52","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T03:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/?p=3428"},"modified":"2016-08-23T06:21:31","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T14:21:31","slug":"obedience-and-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/p\/3428","title":{"rendered":"OBEDIENCE AND PEACE  (Yvonne\u2014My One and Only Beloved)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2016-01-15-16.08.26-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3127\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2016-01-15-16.08.26-1-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"2016-01-15 16.08.26\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2016-01-15-16.08.26-1-300x198.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2016-01-15-16.08.26-1-768x508.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2016-01-15-16.08.26-1.jpg 933w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By: Yvonne Lai <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>There is peace in my heart, not the world has to offer, nor the world can take away; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Although trials and tribulations surround me, I always have this peace.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chorus:\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Always in my heart, Jesus is mine; moments in my mind, joy and happiness;\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Lord will never leave me, He whispers to me: &#8220;I will never leave you.&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>He belongs to me. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>My physical disabilities limited the movements of my arms, hands, legs and feet.\u00a0 Each movement was extremely painful and strenuous.\u00a0 I felt like I was being caged inside my body.\u00a0 Then God re-molded my inner life and gave me great peace in my heart. When you know you are helpless, you will be obedient to God.\u00a0 However, your obedience can only be attained through persevering in tough tests.\u00a0 When I learned of Rev. Lai\u2019s cancer, I was in great fear.\u00a0 We prayed together.\u00a0 I said, \u201cLord, I submit to you totally\u201d.\u00a0 When I was willing to submit, God gave me peace and joy that the world could not give me.\u00a0 God gives us \u201cpeace that passes all understanding\u201d, and that is the greatest blessing that God bestowed on Christians.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Yvonne Lai There is peace in my heart, not the world has to offer, nor the world can take away; Although trials and tribulations surround me, I always have this peace.\u00a0 Chorus:\u00a0 Always in my heart, Jesus is mine; moments in my mind, joy and happiness;\u00a0 The Lord will never leave me, He whispers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3428"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3428"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3456,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3428\/revisions\/3456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}